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Hollaway, M.J.

Fuzzy changepoint application to evaluate numerical model ability to capture important shifts in environmental time series

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https://doi.org/10.5285/49d04d55-90a7-4106-b8fe-2e75aba228e4
This application is an implementation of a Fuzzy changepoint based approach to evaluate how well numerical models capture local scale temporal shifts in environmental time series. A changepoint in a time series represents a change in the statistical properties of the time series (either mean, variance or mean and variance in this case). These can often represent important local events of interest that numerical models should accurately capture. The application detects the locations of changepoints in two time series (typically one representing observations and one representing a model simulation) and estimates uncertainty on the changepoint locations using a bootstrap approach. The changepoint locations and associated confidence intervals are then converted to fuzzy numbers and fuzzy logic is used to evaluate how well the timing of any changepoints agree between the time series. The app returns individual similarity scores for each changepoint with higher scores representing a better performance of the numerical model at capturing local scale temporal changes seen in the observed record.

To use this application, the user will upload a csv file containing the two time series to be compared.

This work was supported by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Data Science for the Natural Environment (DSNE) project (EP/R01860X/1) and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) as part the UK-SCAPE programme (NE/R016429/1).
Publication date: 2021-03-01
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R

Provenance & quality

This application comprises the source code of an R Shiny app (app.R) that implements the method described in https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2021.104993. The application also provides access to the standalone functions used to execute the analysis (Fuzzy_CPT_functions.R). It can be run on any machine with R and the required packages installed. It has been tested up to R version 3.6.1 with more testing information and package dependencies found in Session_info.txt.

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This model code is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence

Cite this model code as:
Hollaway, M.J. (2021). Fuzzy changepoint application to evaluate numerical model ability to capture important shifts in environmental time series. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/49d04d55-90a7-4106-b8fe-2e75aba228e4

Citations

Hollaway, M.J.; Henrys, P.A.; Killick, R.; Leeson, A.; Watkins, J. (2021). Evaluating the ability of numerical models to capture important shifts in environmental time series: A Fuzzy change point approach. Environmental Modelling & Software. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2021.104993

Correspondence/contact details

Dr Michael Hollaway
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg
Lancaster
Lancashire
LA1 4AP
UNITED KINGDOM
 enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

Author

Hollaway, M.J.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk
Publisher
NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk

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Topic categories
environment
Keywords
Changepoints , Data analytics , Data science , Evaluation framework , Fuzzy logic , UK-SCAPE , UK Status, Change and Projections of the Environment , Uncertainty
Funding
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Award: EP/R01860X/1
Natural Environment Research Council Award: NE/R016429/1
Last updated
08 February 2024 17:25